Sep 18, 2012

Food Crisis, Drought and Vertical Farms

Climate scientists will tell you droughts and other extreme weather
events is the new normal. One way or another, farming needs to adapt to a
new reality. A possible solution is vertical farming. Imagine taking a
bunch of greenhouses, stacking them one on top of each other, and
plunking it down in a city. Once dismissed as an expensive and
unrealistic idea, vertical farms are now cropping up around the world,
but huge challenges still face the young industry. Day 6 producer
Dominic Girard looks into this growing food trend. Click "Read More" for
all kinds of info related to this story.

Go to the site to listen to the radio piece. Here is a short video about vertical farming.

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I saw a vertical farm once but it was designed different from this illustration. This vertical farm was build more like a wall with rows of grow chambers running up the wall. This made it easy for a all the plants to benefit from the sunlight.